Dr. A. Giinther on Australian Reptiles and Fishes. 57 
about one-fourth the size of the tympanum. Fingers not 
_ webbed. Skin perfectly smooth above. Light olive-coloured ; 
a broad black band runs from the extremity of the snout through 
_the eye and tympanum, to the side of the abdomen, being inter- 
rupted a short distance behind the tympanum. A blackish band 
across the back of the wrist. Hind limbs marbled with blackish 
along the fore and hinder surfaces. 
Cape York. 
Body 13 inch long, hind limb 3+ inches, foot 10 lines. 
23. Pelodryas ceruleus (White). 
Port Essington, Moreton Bay, Nicol Bay, Sydney. 
FISHES. 
1. Serranus fuscoguttatus (Riipp.). 
East Africa, Hope Island, Port Essington, Port Denison, 
Cape York. 
2. Serranus undulato-striatus (Ptrs.). 
- New South Wales. 
=8. Plectropoma maculatum (Bl.). 
Cape York. 
4. Priacanthus Benmebari (Schleg.). 
Japan, Sydney. 
5. Ambassis agrammus, sp. 0. 
D.7|>. A.=. L. lat, 26-27. ? 
_ The height of the body is two-fifths of the total length (with 
out caudal). Lateral line visible on the foremost scale only. 
The second dorsal spine is longer than the third, much longer 
than the second and third anal spines (which are equal in 
length), not much shorter than the head, and two-sevenths of 
the total length (without caudal). Uniform greenish olive, with 
a narrow bluish-silvery band along the middle of the tail. 
Cape York. 
6. Ambassis Agassizit (Steindachner). 
— D. 6 | > A. =. be at: 25. 
_ _. The height of the body is contained twice and one-third in 
_ the total length (without caudal). Lateral line none. The 
second dorsal spine is scarcely longer than the third, much 
longer than the anal spines, shorter than the head without snout, 
and less than one-fourth of the total length (without caudal). 
Body immaculate, with a narrow bluish-silvery lateral band. 
Clarence River (Krefft, 65). 
